Fernando de la Rua

Fernando de la Rua (15 September 1937-9 July 2019) was President of Argentina from 10 December 1999 to 21 December 2001, succeeding Carlos Menem and preceding Adolfo Rodriguez Saa. He was a member of the Radical Civic Union.

Biography
Fernando de la Rua was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1937, and he became a political advisor in 1963 and took office as a Senator in 1973. He was removed from office after the 1976 coup, and he became a lawyer; in 1983, after the junta's downfall, he was re-elected as a Senator. In 1991, he was elected a deputy, and he returned to the Senate in 1993. From 1996 to 1999, De la Rua served as Chief of Government of Buenos Aires, the first to be elected by popular vote. In 1999, he was elected President, but the economic crisis which he inherited from Carlos Menem only worsened, and riots broke out in December 2001. After declaring a state of emergency, he was forced to resign and retire from politics. He died in 2019 at the age of 81.